OS 10.5 - Can I Erase Leopard Without Losing XP?

tmaclean · tmaclean #1 (**permalink**)

11-06-2007, 01:50 PM

I'm going to downgrade to Tiger until it's a bit more stable, but I was wondering, can I do a clean install of Tiger without losing my Windows Boot Camp partition?

Kash · Kash #2 (**permalink**)

11-06-2007, 01:57 PM

Yes, as long as you don't repartition the drive during setup and point the installer to the HFS+ partition and not the whole disk.

Kash #2 (permalink)
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Member Since: Apr 02, 2007 Posts: 35	11-06-2007, 01:50 PM I'm going to downgrade to Tiger until it's a bit more stable, but I was wondering, can I do a clean install of Tiger without losing my Windows Boot Camp partition?
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